An officer from Qingtian Public Security Bureau Exit-Entry Administration helps a local resident deal with exit and entry affairs in a self-filling machine. [Photo/xinhuanet.com]

Qingtian county, in Lishui, East China's Zhejiang province, which is the hometown of many overseas Chinese, has made significant headways in simplifying administrative procedures for them,  as a part of the pioneering "At Most One Visit" reform program.

The reform, initiated by Zhejiang in February 2017, is a pilot system aimed at streamlining administrative services, as well simplifying the process for people visiting government departments so that ideally they only have to do so once. 

So far, Qingtian county has handled a total of 28,000 administrative affairs concerning overseas Chinese.

An officer from Qingtian Public Security Bureau Exit-Entry Administration helps a local resident deal with exit and entry affairs in an all-in-one machine, which effectively reduces the processing time from seven working days to just three minutes. [Photo/xinhuanet.com]